Guest Country Finland — Archiv 2019 — Vienna Design Week

Tervetuloa Suomeen! Through its changing focus, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK provides a detailed look at thedesign creations of a different European country each year. The current guest: Finland. The home of trend setting brands, Nordic luminaries, and iconic classics, this design nation, which currently occupies the EU presi dency, reveals in its guest performance the unexpected, the unconventional, and the inimitable. Under the surface of the Nordic reserve attributed to its population can be found a virtually inexhaustible reservoir of nonconfor mist, humorous, and passionate design potential – a raw, wild beauty that should be plunged into at the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK: From the Helsinki university to the extensive group showcase to the bilateral Passionswege contributions: Finnishdesign will flood the festival this fall.

Kollektiv Fischka/Patrizia Gapp

Guest Country

Talk

DESIGN DIPLOMACY – A PLAYFUL DISCUSSION ABOUT DESIGN

27.9.2019, 4pm

Card games function as social mediums and pleasant get-togethers. With this in mind, the Embassy of Finland, together with the Helsinki Design Week, invites visitors to an experimental discussion in the ambassador’s residence in Vienna: Industrial designer and curator of the extensive Guest … more

Kollektiv Fischka/Philipp Podesser

Guest Country

Presentation

FINLAND LOUNGE

27.9.–6.10.2019

Minimalist forms, dealing with nature sensitively, using renewable materials, and an incomparably high sense of quality – it’s no surprise that Finnish design has long been world famous. After all, this simple, grounded, and natureoriented ideology has accompanied and enriched Finns’ lives for … more

Kollektiv Fischka/Paulus Jakob

Guest Country

Exhibition

WILD AT HEART – A COLLECTION OF MODERN FINNISH DESIGN AND ART

Finnland-Institut in Deutschland

27.9.–6.10.2019

Finnish design is world famous. It’s prized around the globe for its high quality and distinct formal language. Simple, natural colors and clear lines are trendsetters. Originality, boldness, and use of vibrant color characterize the design language. The extensive Guest Country showcase WILD AT … more

Kollektiv Fischka/Paulus Jakob

Guest Country

Guided Tour

FINNISH DESIGN AT HEART

Finnland-Institut in Deutschland

27.9.2019, 11am

For the exhibition WILD AT HEART, the Finnish designer and curator Tero Kuitunen created a multilayered and colorful concept that opens to viewers the exciting world of contemporary Finnish design. Works from the eleven participating designers will be gathered in three exhibition complexes with … more

Kollektiv Fischka/Daniela Jakob

Guest Country

Talk

RICHNESS, CULTURAL HERITAGE, AND SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

Finnland-Institut in Deutschland

1.10.2019, 5pm

The extensive Finnish Guest Country exhibition WILD AT HEART at the Festival Headquarters in the Althan Quartier sees itself as a curated composition of new materials, form, and techniques, as a noteworthy and experimental cross section that visualizes the approaches of a veritable design nation.

Kollektiv Fischka/Daniela Jakob

Debut

Exhibition

FROM DATA TO FURNITURE

27.9.–6.10.2019

Austria meets Finland, research meets business, manufacturing meets automation. The School of Arts, Design and Architecture of Helsinki’s Aalto University stands for an explicitly practical approach – which is also shown by the student works that the Finnish university will bring to Vienna for the … more

Kollektiv Fischka/Kramar

Passionswege

Presentation

TEEMU SALONEN with Glas Bauer

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

27.9.–5.10.2019

Plastic palms, pastel lettuce leaves, a car radio, a greenish chunk of glass – the set pieces used by the Finnish designer Teemu Salonen in his works seem to come from the most remote nooks of everyday life. Frequently set in hand-shaped connecting pieces, these found objects are on the one hand … more

Kollektiv Fischka/Kramar

Passionswege

Presentation

VILLE KOKKONEN with J. & L. Lobmeyr

J. & L. Lobmeyr, Ville Kokkonen, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

27.9.–5.10.2019

When people think of glass, they must also think about light. Nowhere else is this more apparent than at J. & L. Lobmeyr. There, the light doesn’t merely refract into the innumerable facets of the crystal chandelier, it also plays on the surface of the virtually immaterial frosted glass.

Kollektiv Fischka/Niko Havranek

PLATFORM

Exhibition

TONI R. TOIVONEN: MADNESS INVITED

27.9.–5.10.2019

The artist Toni R. Toivonen, born in Helsinki in 1987, examines the duality of life and death, takes on the various aspects of existence. Beginning with painting, Toivonen began working with such media as oils and charcoal on canvas before developing a conceptual approach through experimentation:

Kollektiv Fischka/Stefanie Freynschlag

PLATFORM

Presentation

ANALOG FURNITURE

27.9.–6.10.2019

While the Austrian company Pro-Ject Audio Systems has produced turntables and a complete line of equipment for analogue stereos for nearly 30 years, the Finnish designer Harri Koskinen is known mainly for sensitively reduced, functional furniture design. As part of a unique cooperation, they … more

Kollektiv Fischka/Paulus Jakob

Special

Exhibition

DISTANT FRIENDS: TEXTILES AND CERAMICS

27.9.–6.10.2019

One is hard and fragile, the other is soft and flexible. One is intimately close to our body every day, the other is entrusted with our valuable food. Both are prototypical results of the work of humans who use tools and create culture. They’re defining influences on and expressions of our … more

Kollektiv Fischka/Maria Noisternig

Talks

Talk

DESIGN/SMITHY

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

27.9.2019, 5pm

During its visit to Fiskars, about an hour from Helsinki, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK team was struck by certain parallels with the Lower Austrian town of Waidhofen an der Ybbs: For example, blacksmithing was in the past economically important in both places. The current evidence of this fact are the … more

Kollektiv Fischka/Kramar

Talks

Talk

ALL EYES ON ALVAR AALTO

5.10.2019, 5pm

The architect Tiina Parkkinen, who runs the successful office Berger+Parkkinen Architekten together with Alfred Berger in Vienna and Helsinki, talks in her role as the Austrian chairwoman of the Alvar Aalto Gesellschaft about the work of the great Finnish architect. The focus will be the Stadthalle … more

Kollektiv Fischka/Kramar

Talks

Talk

FINNISH-JAPANESE PARALLELS

6.10.2019, 6pm

Finland and Japan, two countries that are considered outsiders on their continents due to their locations, their natures, their languages, and their approach to aesthetics, color, forms, and simple solutions. Without a doubt, parallels can be found – all that’s required is a close look and a will … more

Kollektiv Fischka/Paulus Jakob

Education

Guided Tour

Guided TOUR 4: DESIGN IN THE CITY CENTER

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK / Marion Kuzmany (ARCH ON TOUR)

ARCH ON TOUR, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

2.10.2019, 3.30pm–6pm

Vienna’s city center is full of history and stories. From the perspective of architectural design, it can also be regarded as a melting pot. Sprinkled with architectural treasures, this walk, which meanders between the two disciplines, offers opportunities to visit selected shops and manufacturers … more

Kollektiv Fischka/Philipp Podesser

Education

Guided Tour

Guided TOUR 5: TRACKING FINLAND

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK / Marion Kuzmany (ARCH ON TOUR)

ARCH ON TOUR, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

4.10.2019, 2pm–5pm

Other than in a straightforward language, Finnish design often manifests itself in a marked reference to nature. This is true of both it and architectural formal aesthetics. With these ideas, the focus tour with the architect Tiina Parkkinen, which draws on the Finnish Guest Country exhibition WILD … more

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Phillip Podesser

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Phillip Podesser

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Phillip Podesser

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Phillip Podesser